Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped, sentence 6
Mountains rise where plates push against each other for millions of years.
Who acts: Mountains, plates · What happens: rise, push
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mountains, plates), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rise | nsubj |
| 2 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 push | advmod |
| 4 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 push | nsubj |
| 5 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rise | advcl |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 5 push | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 millions | case |
| 10 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 push | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 years | case |
| 12 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 millions | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | Mountains | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | push | present | plates | against each; for millions of years | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent against each=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:043-landforms.lesson:6.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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